After The Rush Hour letra

I am the small town lineman,
and you'll find me out here on the line.
searching ceaselessly to simply find a place I can call mine.

Every corner of this country
criss-crossed out with coloured lines,
the city lies before me, another city sprawling out behind.

I am a frontiersman, trapped in suburban England!

And since the Scramble ended,
since the West was won on wagon trails,
it seems Mazzini's paradisiacal panopticon prevailed.

My walkabouts no longer take me
beyond a choice of different gaols.
Why should I have to choose a state when every one of them has failed?

I am a frontiersman, trapped in suburban England.

And I promise not to overthrow the state
if allowed to redraw the atlas before I emigrate!

So I have sailed the seven seas alone,
trying to find a shore I can call home,
but all I found are different flags, double-speaking diplomats,
and I do not have time for that.

So I'll declare my own sovereign state,
the borders based on the bottoms of my boots,
and I will open embassies wherever the hell I please,
and at assemblies you will see me sat but never on my knees.

I am a frontiersman, trapped in suburban England!

And I promise not to overthrow the state
if allowed to redraw the atlas before I emigrate!

And I'd gladly leave your Metternich's alone
as long as where I lay my head I can be my very own.

I am the Winchester lineman!

I am a frontiersman, trapped in suburban England!
but here I will not remain,
I'll ride into the sunset, my horse waits on the plain.

And I keep walking the line.

Million Dead - Letras

• A Song To Ruin
• Achillies Lung
• After The Rush Hour
• Bovine Spungiform Economics
• Breaking The Back
• Carthego Est Delenda
• Charlie And The Propaganda Myth Machine
• Chinua Achebe Will Have His Revenge On EC1
• Come On Sharon
• Engine Driver
• Everybody Needs To Read More Books
• Father my Father
• Gnostic Front
• Harmony, No Harmony
• Hipsterclad And Clueless
• Holloway Prison Blues
• I Am Become The South
• I Am The Party
• I Gave My Eyes To Stevie Wonder
• I Want To Get Shot At (By An Israeli Gun Squad)
• It's A Shit Business
• Living the Dream
• Macgyver
• Margot Kidder
• Murder and Create
• Mute Group
• One More Power Chord And The System's Done For
• Plan B
• Pornography For Cowards
• Reformulating The Challenge To Archism
• Relentless
• Smiling At Strangers On Trains
• The Eddison Address
• The Kids Are Going To Love It
• The Rise And Fall
• There Are Ghosts
• To Whom It May Concern